Since I recently discovered that the SDMB has the power to cure the common cold simply by bitching about having said cold, it’s time to see what other powers are bubbling beneath the surface here:
Holy crap, I want this house. Yes, I know that there is already a full-price offer on the table, but we’re offering a few grand over asking price, so maybe that’ll swing things over our way.
And of course, it would also be very cool if we found that even though the place was built in 1860, all the plumbing, wiring and everything else hidden in the walls is all without problem or defect of any sort.
I am thinking good thoughts for you. Hope it comes through.
May you have Good{To one’s liking, agreeable, congenial, favorable, grateful, gratifying, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, satisfying, welcomed}. Luck{chance, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune}
Hal Briston
Yes, the powers of the SDMB members are truly astonishing.
What Exit’s posting about thinking good thoughts reminded me of the SDMB member you should ask - Anthony Freemont. He’d make sure that getting the house would be a really good thing for you. When you speak with him, think only good thoughts or he might think you are a bad man - a very bad man. :eek:
The house I know own (by way of Countrywide) had a contract on it when we found it. If your contract is worth more, they may find a way to get out of the first one to make yours become in force. Make your realtor offer it as a backup contract, make them beg and plead to make it a backup. Then if, for any reason, the first contract doesn’t close, yours pretty much kicks in.
May the gods that govern closings look favorably upon you, even if that means they are cursing the other folk.
Aren’t you happy we won’t be putting those jokes out to pasture? There are always newbies that need “The Saga of Hal” to be reiterated to them.
We are the prophets.
First you must approach the traditional owners of the land you wish to buy…because there will undoubtedly be some caveat that prevents you from purchasing it unless you perform the
Okay, Hal, I’m sending all my sheepy-good New House thoughts your way. ::: waggles fingers and thinks good thoughts :::
In return, I’d like some New Job vibes sent my way. I really, really, really want this job, but I have to take a physical agility test, and I’m not exactly what you’d call a fine physical specimen. I’m not horribly out of shape, and I know I can do it, I just need to eat right, cut out the junk food, and work out a little for the next month.
I also need some good thoughts sent my way. I really, really, really want this job.
Twenty openings, a couple hundred applicants. And me.
Thanks much for the well wishes, all. Hopefully we’ll hear something today/tomorrow.
Moving on, but staying in Jersey. The house is in Mount Holly, a town I’ve loved since my days delivering auto parts throughout Central Jersey back in the late 80’s. That town was one of my favorite parts of my route.
